StarSat and AFOREVO join forces to elevate local content

StarSat and AFOREVO join forces to elevate local content

StarSat and AFOREVOjoin forces to elevate local content

Leading PayTV operator StarSatand AFOREVO, home of the best online African entertainment video content, have joined forces to extend the reach across the African continent. The launch of the channel was announced at Discop Africa,taking place at Sandton Convention Centre from 02 – 04 November 2016.

Commenting on the launch, Michael Dearham, StarTimes Vice-President and Managing Director of Media Division, said “Consistent with StarTimes mission and values, our search for quality TV channels and award-winning television programming is at the heart of our commitment to service excellence. We are pleased to announce our partnership with Aforevo, whose exciting channel will most certainly add great entertainment value and diversity to an already stunning line-up of channels on our digital platform

AFROREVO has two components; AFOREVO Movies,showcasing a wide range of local movies on offer and AFOREVO Music TV which takes a look atbehind the scenes of popular musicians and interviews that allow fans to get to know their favourite musicians better. Itshowcases a wide variety of locally produced music content.

Murphy Anawana, AFOREVO Foundersaid “We’re regarded as a leading YouTube network provider of African content. African people want to consume content that depicts their everyday lives and content that they can relate to, in their desired languages. We want to reach all parts of the African continent – creating, distributing and celebrating the wonderful African content, starting from movies to tutorials and every other content in-between. As such, this partnership with StarSat will provide our viewers with more options to consume our content. Connectivity is still a challenge on the continent and StarSat has helped us overcome this challenge.”

“As Nollywood seems to have captured the imagination of Africans in particular, AFOREVO is supremely glad to be a part of the solution that brings the whole Nollywood revolution and entertainment experience to the doorstep of non English-speaking sub-Saharan Africans.  With StarTimes and AFOREVO having seen the potential of this niche that AFOREVO TV occupies, and StarTimes having wholeheartedly opted to carry AFOREVO TV, exciting times await the target audience of French-speaking Africans, said Afam Anawana, CEO of AFOREVO TV.”

AFOREVO channel will be carried on StarSat, channel 606.  Fans  from the rest of Africa can enjoy entertainment video content such as movies, comedy shows, gospel music, high-life music, talk-shows etc. all at the touch of a button.

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About StarSat

StarSat is an affordable, satellite Pay-Tv network, proudly bringing digital TV into more homes across South Africa.  StarSat offers its subscribers three world class value-for-money packages, from just R99 to R199 per month, making digital TV available to everyone. With more than 100 channels on offer, subscribers have an excellent choice of movies, series, drama, news, knowledge, family, sport, kids, music and cultural programming.

For Indian viewers, StarSat offers StarSat Indian as an add-on package at only R99. Viewers can enjoy nine dedicated channels in Tamil, Hindi and English, featuring only the best from Bollywood, Indian glamour, entertainment, news and topical issues.

Chinese viewers have access to 17 dedicated Chinese channels - drama, news, movies and Kung Fu available as a standalone Chinese package for R199 per month.  

StarSat is the brand that replaced TopTV and was officially launched on 31 October 2013, by On Digital Media (Pty) Ltd.   StarTimes has a 20% stake in ODM.  StarTimes is the worldwide technology company, established in 1988 in China, and has licences and registered companies in 10 other African nations. For more information, visit: www.starsat.co.za

About AFOREVO

Murphy Ben International owners of Aforevo TV having carved a niche for itself in African entertainment by attaining the position of Number 1 YouTube network for African contents with over 300 channels on You Tube the over 2,500,000,000 views and over 25,000,000,000 minutes watched speaks volumes for it success with African content.

AFOREVO TV is a full thematic, French dubbed Nollywoodchannel packaged to provide viewing experience for all French speaking Africans who can resonate  with African entertainment through  the Nollywood genre of content and other African movies. It also offers French dubbed TV series and other entertaining African content packaged for Africans and the diaspora.

The Murphy Ben Group is well positioned for disruption through key offering of African content to be unveiled with such unique offerings such as Nollywood thematic  linear Channels in different native African language, Dubbing Services, a music channel Aforevo Music and thousands of hours of Nollywood movies originally in English but dubbed into French and other niche African languages such as Swahili, Lingala, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Twi available for acquisitions. For more info visit

www.aforevo.com